Folio® Balance Climber

Model #307423

Forma™ - Intro Video

Video features Landscape Structures new Forma Collection.

[video: scene begins with a full elevated view of a playground equipment with green artificial grass surfacing. Four separate unique sculpture like play structures with a color scheme of copper and purple. White text appears on the screen reading “Forma”. A crowd of children run towards the play equipment.]

[video: camera switches to a ground view of a play structure with a standing spinner and a play panel suspended by ropes. Children play on other play structures in the background. Scene switches to a girl as she rotates a steering wheel back an forth on a suspended play panel while another girl holds the see through panel from the back. Scene switches to a ground view of a “A-Frame” like play structure with a belted bridge connected by ropes to the large playground beams. Children climb up the side ladders of the structure, on other climbing ropes and the belt bridge. Scene switches again to a different play structure with suspended ropes, foot steppers and play panel. The screen fills panel by panel with a still image of the crossed connection beams of one of the play structures. White text appears on screen one word at a time reading “The contemporary anywhere playsystem.]

[scene switches to a boy as he walks across a balance log on a wobble spring but with connecting ropes on either end to help with stabilization. Scene switches to a boy riding down towards the camera on a large blue curved slide. The boy shouts as he rides down the slide.]

Boy: Ahhh!

[video: Camera switches to a elevated view of the play area slowly panning left to right as children and families play on the several play structures. These play structures are designed in a blue and light grey color scheme. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Ages 2 to 5”. Camera switches to a higher full elevated view of the play area back to the play structures with the copper and purple color scheme. Children play on the different play activities of the structures. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Ages 5 to 12”. Scene switches to a full elevated view of the “A-frame” shaped play structure. Children run and climb across the belted bridge of the structure. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Fortress™ Multi-Climber/ 5 to 12”. Scene switches to a new play structure with four slightly angled vertical beams and two horizontal beams. Ropes connect down to different high foot steppers while there is a small slightly curved belted bridge on the ground in the center of the play structure. Children play on the foot steppers. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Foxtrot Multi-Climber/ 2 to 5”. Scene switches to a simple play structure with two slightly angled vertical beams with a single cross beam. Four ropes suspend down from the cross beam each with a different play panel. Two girls and their mother play at the play panels. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Focal™ Sensory Wall/ 2 to 12’. Scene switches to a structure where two angled beams make the peak of a triangle as connecting ropes make up a climbing web. Children climb all over the ropes. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Forge™ Climber/ 5 to 12”. Scene switches to a simple swing set frame made up of the unique angled beams. A boy and girl swing on the swing set. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Forma™ Swing Frame/ 2 to 12”. Scene switches to children climbing across suspending ropes with foot steppers at the bottom form a square play structure frame. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Folio™ Balance Climber/ 5 to 12”. Scene switches to a boy and girl standing and wiggling on a triangular shaped base with suspended support ropes. Text at the bottom of the screen reads “Forma™ Giggler Jiggler Climber/ 2 to 5”. Scene switches to a boy riding down towards the camera on a large blue curved slide. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Forma™ Alpine® Slide/ 5 to 12”. Scene switches to a boy playing at a sound rain panel suspended by ropes from a play structure. A girl and boy play on a stand-up spinner in the background. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Forma™ Sol™ Spinner/ 5 to 12”. Scene switches to a simple play structure frame with two slightly vertical beams and a single connecting horizontal beam. Two large open circular seats with belted seating areas are suspended by ropes from the main cross beam. A boy sits lounging in one of the circler seats. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Fox Den™ Hangouts/ 2 to 12”. Scene switches to a focused view of varying height foot steppers made from artificial looking wood planks. A boy’s shoes can be seen stepping from the tallest stepper down to a lower one. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Footprint™ Steppers/ 2 to 12”. Scene switches to a girl as she holds her hands out to her sides balancing on a balance beam. She walks down the balance beam and steps off onto a foot stepper. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Footprint™ Balance Beam/ 2 to 12”. Scene switches to a focused top view of a wobble pod made up artificial looking wood planks. A child’s feet step up onto the wobble pod and it begins to wiggle. White text at the bottom of the screen reads “Footprint™ Wobble Bouncer/ 2 to 12”. Panels of a blue toned image fill the screen. The image is a close-up of a foot hold of a rope ladder with the Landscape Structures ribbon logo embossed on the side of the foot hold. White text appears in the center of the screen one word at a time reading “From the experts”.]

[video: rectangular panels recreate the screen of a girl as she stands in front of a play structure and speaks to the camera. The scene switches several times to different children as they talk about their favorite play activities on the play structures.]

Girl: I'm eleven and my favorite part was over there with the beams and all that kind of things.

Boy: And like the slide the best. So curvy downwards.

Girl 2: Because it's more higher and I can go down fast.

Boy 2: The big thing with the ladder. It's just so wobbly.

Girl 3: And I liked the bridge.

Boy 3: And I'm five years old, no five and a half. And I like going on the bridge.

Boy 4: And I like the slide. Because it goes really fast.

[video: rectangular planks fill the page making up a photo with a purple overlay. The image is a focused view of a balance beam wrapped in rope on a wobble spring with additional support ropes on each end. White text in the center of the screen reads “Sensory Rich”. Rectangular planks fill the screen showing the next scene of a girl as she slides a shape on a horizontal rope to a cluster of other shapes on the rope. Scene switches to a girl as she stands and looks into a play panel mirror. Scene switches to a boy as he rotates the center of a play panel with three connecting hour glasses. Scene switches to a focused look of a child’s feet standing on the rope wrapped balance beam. It wiggles bag and forth as the child moves. Rectangular planks fill the page making up a photo with a green overlay. The image is a focused view of rectangular small panels on vertical ropes. White text in the center of the screen reads “Inclusive”. Rectangular planks fill the screen showing the next scene of children of all abilities playing on a play structure. The camera focuses closer into the scene of a boy transferring from his wheelchair to sit on the rope wrapped balance beam. His mother holds him as he sits and wiggles on the beam. Scene switches as the camera pans left to right showing smiling playing children on different play activities. Scene switches to a boy seating in his wheelchair as the turns the wheel of a rain sounds panel. Scene switches to children running up the spiral belting leading up to a playground slide. A mother kneels neck to her son in his wheelchair as they look at the transfer station at the bottom of the spiral belting leading up to the slide. Rectangular planks fil the page making up a photo with a light blue overlay. The image is a focused view of ropes connected to a horizontal cross beam of a play structure. White text in the center of the screen reads “Open sightlines”. Rectangular planks fill the screen showing the next scene of a girl jumping across the ground arched walking bridge of one of the play structures. Scene switches to a panning view left to right of children playing on the “A-Frame” like play structure and in the foreground a boy runs up to the steps of the play structure, then running up the spiral belt walkway leading up to the top of the large blue slide. Rectangular planks fill the page making up a photo with a grey overlay. The image is a close-up of a horizontal rope with varying shapes panels strung on it. White text in the center of the screen reads “Endless color options”. Rectangular planks fill the screen showing a render animation of a Forma playground set in the center of a city. The playground color scheme is bright orange and accented with blue. Scene switches to a render animation of a Forma Playground set in a forest landscape. The playground color scheme is different shades of green. Scene switches to a render animation of an urban setting of a Forma playground. The playground color scheme is black and accent with teal. Scene switches to a render animation of a open Southwestern location with a Forma playground. The color scheme of the playground is different shades of orange with white accents. Scene switches to a render animation of outer city park with the city scape in the background. The Forma playground has a black and white color scheme. Scene switches to a render animation of a Nature Park setting with a Forma playground. The playground color scheme is a light tan with accents in orange. Scene switches to a render animation of a Forma park playground with a color scheme of light purple and accented with light grey. The scene change quickly speeds up showing many different render animations of possible Forma playground color schemes and locations. Rectangular planks fill the screen making up an image with a orange. The image is of the top of a Forma play structure. White text in the center of the screen reads “Exclusively from”. Rectangular planks make up the next scene of children playing on the Forma slide. A boy rides down the large blue slide in slow motion.]

[video: the screen switches to white. In the center of the screen is the Landscape Structures logo with red text below it reading “For a better tomorrow we play today”. In the background you can hear children giggling and then a child yelling “Whee!”. Video ends.]

Folio® Balance Climber

Video features Landscape Structures new Folio™ Balance Climber of the Forma™ Collection.

[video: scene fades into a full view of a play structures made up of four slightly slanted vertical square beams with four horizontal connecting beams on the top of those. Five evenly space climbing ropes hang down from one of the top horizontal beams. Each rope has two or three rectangular plastic pieces for hand and foot holds for climbing while at the bottom of the rope a foot disk made of small artificial wood planks finally connects to a change then to the ground. In the center of the structure is a tubular balance beam wrapped in rope. The beam is raised from the ground by a foot by a central large spring. At either end of the beam two ropes vee off connecting to the structure’s beams. Scene switches as the camera focuses on the beam rapped in rope for better foot grip. Scene fades out and back into several Forma play structures filled with playing children. The camera focuses on a boy as he walks across the tubular balance beam. He uses a horizontal rope connected diagonally across to the other supported ropes connected to the beam and the play structure. Scene switches to a group of children playing on the climbing ropes on the side of the Folio Balance Climber. Other children play on the balance beam of the climber. The camera focuses on a girl’s feet as she steps up onto one of the foot disks of the climbing ropes. The disc shifts and moves as she tries to get her foot situated. The camera pulls back for a full view of the Folio Balance Climber structure fill with children playing. The camera focuses on a boy as his mother supports him while sitting on the tubular balance beam. His wheelchair sits just behind him as his mother helps to situate him on the beam. Scene switches as the camera pans left to right. As the camera pans children play on the climbing ropes and balance beam. Children screech and giggler as they play on the giggling balance beam. Scene switches to two girls as they jump up and down on a narrow strip of belt. They hold onto a horizontal rope at chest height to stabilize themselves as they jump. The camera focuses on one of the girl’s shoes as she continues to jump of the belt strip. Scene switches to tow boys as they stand on the tubular balance beam. They hold onto a horizontal rope at chest height to stabilize themselves as they wiggle and move the balance beam. The camera focuses on a boy’s shoes as he stands on the rope wrapped balance beam. Scene switches back to a full view of children playing on the tubular balance beam. A girl sits on the beam while a boy stands and wiggles it. Scene switches to a girl as she holds onto one of the vertical climbing ropes. She adjusts her hands and holds onto the connected rectangular plastic handhold on the rope. Children jump and play on the belt strap and balance beam in the background. Scene switches as the camera focuses on the foot discs of the vertical climbing ropes. Children climb, balance, and walk across the varying height foot discs. Scene fades to black and video ends.]

Product Details

Age Ranges

  • 5 to 12 years

Play Styles

Play Systems

Dimensions

    • ASTM Max Fall Height: 20" (0,51 m)
    • CSA Max Fall Height: 20" (0,51 m)
    • EN Max Fall Height: 20" (0,51 m)
    • ASTM Minimum Area Required: 22' 11" x 22' 5" (6,95 m x 6,83 m)

Design Standards Certified

Price Range (USD)
$20K-$50K

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Overview

The Folio® Balance Climber contains three unique dynamic experiences in one unit. Whether shimmying across the slack line, bobbling on the bouncy cable-wrapped balance beam or traversing the wobbly steps, everyone can find the right level of challenge and fun.

Features

  • Accommodates many kids at once on several activities
  • The spring-mounted, cable-wrapped balance beam is at transfer height and the ends have cable supports to lean on while sitting
  • Durable galvanized steel frame in your choice of ProShield® color
  • Steel-reinforced cables are extremely durable and vandal resistant, available in black, red or tan
  • Recycled plastic lumber steps and Permalene® blocks provide challenging climbs
  • Slack line constructed from black, extra-thick, polyester-reinforced textured rubber belting
  • Direct bury or surface mount
  • U.S. Patent pending

ProShield Finish

ProShield® Finish

Permalene

Recycled Permalene®

Cables

Climbing Cables

Color is an important decision, and we've curated color palettes to match a variety of aesthetics. If this product includes materials with color options, they are shown above.

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Sensory

  • Proprioception
  • Tactile
  • Vestibular +
  • Visual

Motor Skills

  • Agility
  • Balance
  • Coordination
  • Core Body Strength
  • Flexibility
  • Lower Body Strength
  • Motor Planning
  • Upper Body Strength

Cognitive Skills

  • Problem Solving

Social/Emotional Skills

  • Cooperation
  • Imaginative Play
  • Social Skill Development
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